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Apple says not every Apple Silicon generation will get an Ultra
Many people in this forum used to say that Apple has made plans for next 5 years, or even 10 years. The question is - Was it part of Apple's roadmap to not have M4 Ultra for Mac Studio from the beginning OR it was part of the plan but Apple ran into unexpected issues and had to change their plans in the last minute?
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Tim Cook teases the imminent launch of a new MacBook Air
I get what you are saying. But I guess you are missing the key points on why AI is doing it this way.mpantone said:
Just refer to the service as the one named by the service on the homepage.Wesley Hilliard said:
Twitter was rebranded "X" two years ago. Twitter existed since 2006. Facebook became Meta four years ago and everyone still calls it Facebook. Ever heard of Alphabet? Even Elon Musk still says Twitter by accident every now and then.kiltedgreen said:Maybe off-topic but please can journalists (and the rest) stop referring to X/Twitter? It’s X and I think the entire world knows that by now. It’s a bit like referring to Apple/Apple Computer We know. Thank you.
Some people barely even knew what Twitter was when it was still Twitter. They're less likely to even know what X is. The name on its own says nothing about what it is or does. In the past 19 years, people on the internet reading news have been exposed to the idea of tweets and Twitter. They're likely to know what that is. X sounds like a porn website, which, to be fair, it mostly is at this point.I'll call it X when Musk calls his daughter by her name. Fair deal?Meanwhile, on the topic of the post, I think it's the MacBook Air and iPad Air with M4. And Apple will slide the iPad 11 in at the end with an Apple Intelligence chip, whichever one.
X (the service) and the company that runs it (X Corp.) were both rebranded a couple of years ago. If you visit twitter.com, it will automatically redirect you to X.com. Note that the Twitter app on macOS and iOS (just as the one running on my iPod touch 6th generation running iOS 12) don't actually work anymore. Same with the old Twitter app on Windows. All the Twitter apps started throwing errors about 1.5 years ago.
It's not Twitter anymore. It's X.
Facebook (the service) still runs at facebook.com. It does not redirect to Meta.com. The company that runs the Facebook service changed names years ago.
Same with Google. The services still resolve at google.com. The company that runs Google renamed themselves Alphabet years ago.
Remember that Apple Computer Inc. rebranded to Apple. And no journalist still refers to it as Apple Computer. And the changeover was pretty quick.
And what do you call Apple's cloud service? It used to be called MobileMe. Do you still call it that? It's the same company running it. Nope, you call it iCloud because Apple rebranded it to that. The old me.com email addresses and Apple ID accounts registered to those addresses still work, but it's not called MobileMe anymore.
If Apple rebrands MobileMe to iCloud, then you can start using the name X because that's what it's called now. Consistency is important in online reporting.
From Wesley's post - "The name on its own says nothing about what it is or does. In the past 19 years, people on the internet reading news have been exposed to the idea of tweets and Twitter. They're likely to know what that is. X sounds like a porn website, which, to be fair, it mostly is at this point."
And another posted mentioned this point - X can look disjointing in sentences alone.
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Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor
Or Apple should provide better software features that can make use of the advanced hardware available in the iPad Pros.tht said:This draws the iPad Air ever closer to the iPad Pro. Hard for customers to opt for the iPad Pro imo. They have to really want the display (OLED, nanotexture), 16 GB RAM, and Face ID. More than ever, I think the iPad Pro should have larger display sizes, including different aspect ratios, such as a 11.5" 5:4 and a 13.7". Make the iPP models visibly different from the iPA models.
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Apple's iPhone Fold is creeping closer - what the rumor mill says is coming
Apple has to start somewhere. They cannot get to where they need to be, by not launching the product. Rather, they will have to launch it at a price point which is feasible, say $3000, and then reduce the price as years pass by. Yes, it will be for a niche group of hardcore Apple fans in the first 2-5 years and then become more mainstream as price reduces in the subsequent years.chasm said:I'll try to keep an open mind about any possible future folding iPhone, but the ones that already exist are more expensive than the most expensive iPhone. And prone to crease.A folding iPad might be nice, but not at double the current price.
And it is nice to see that you are keeping an open mind on this, unlike many people in this forum who dismiss the idea outright without thinking this through. It will be fun to see how the tune changes once Apple launches a foldable iPhone. -
Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it
I agree with you. Teams was a mess for initial 1 year, particularly on the performance front. And then it improved significantly. Yes, there are UI aspects where it can be improved further. But it is not as terrible as it is being made out to be. May be, the people who complain about it have not used it in recent past.eriamjh said:I always assumed/guessed that Skype tech went into teams. Why give away for free what one can charge for? Maybe it didn’t.
We use teams at work and I find it to be fine. Teams chat is like iMessage. A teams calls allow screen sharing and remote control. It’s Outlook integrated for calendars and cloud folders. I don’t understand the complaints.FaceTime is for consumers. Teams is for businesses. With money. Lots of it.
